Word: droughts
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...greatest historians of our day" fail to mention the Drought conference between President Roosevelt and Governor Landon over the "March of Time...
...When the Drought brought Franklin Roosevelt and Alf Landon together in Des Moines last month, each one had yet to speak a word in direct criticism of the other. Hence not even political innocents were surprised that the Nominees met without embarrassment, conversed in warm good fellowship, parted with expressions of mutual admiration...
...Harvard's Tercentenary (see p. 22) Franklin Roosevelt again demonstrated the rainmaking ability which month ago made him a hero in the Drought belt, two weeks ago made him a Noah in North Carolina, last week made him a Jonah at Cambridge...
...baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable fact of Recovery, was proceeding with a "non-political" campaign which, as Lacy Haynes' and Roy Roberts' Kansas City Star conceded of his Drought trip, was "politically a huge success...
...Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing...